sdlc-research

Answers one external research question with cited sources across five perspectives.

Updated Sep 11, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/zhixuan312/zz-stack --skill sdlc-research-zhixuan312
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: sdlc-research
Source: https://github.com/zhixuan312/zz-stack/tree/main/catalog/sdlc/sdlc-flow/skills/sdlc-research
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/zhixuan312/zz-stack --skill sdlc-research-zhixuan312

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? When a delivery agent needs to know something about the world outside its own system — prior art, what a standard says, how practitioners solved a similar problem — it needs a disciplined way to search, weigh, and cite external sources rather than guessing from training data. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five-perspective coverage: Works through primary sources, practitioner consensus, recent developments, counter-perspectives, and cross-domain analogies for every question. - Source-tier weighting: Ranks evidence from peer-reviewed and official sources above community content, and calibrates stated confidence to the tier actually fetched. - Honest degraded mode: If no external sources are reachable, it declares that in the first line and labels findings as model knowledge instead of returning an empty report. - Use Case: Dispatched by sdlc-explore to answer "how do other teams version event schemas?", it searches, fetches, cites real URLs, deduplicates its own findings, and returns a conclusion-first JSON answer the caller synthesises into explore.md. ## Quick Start Dispatch this skill with one external research question and receive a cited, conclusion-first answer as a JSON text block.

Frequently Asked Questions about sdlc-research

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I answer a research question with cited external sources?▼

Dispatch one question to this skill and it searches and fetches with whatever tools the runtime provides, works five perspectives from primary sources to cross-domain analogies, and returns a conclusion-first JSON answer where every finding carries a URL.

What happens when no external sources can be reached?▼

The skill declares in its first line that no sources could be fetched, then marks each finding as model knowledge with no sources reachable. An announced unsourced answer is returned instead of an empty report.

How are external sources prioritized and weighted?▼

Sources follow a four-tier ranking: primary sources such as peer-reviewed papers and official docs rank highest, then practitioner content, then recent material, then community posts used only to fill gaps with authority flagged.

Can this skill investigate questions about my own codebase?▼

No. Questions about the system itself belong to sdlc-investigate, a different worker. This skill stays strictly on the external research question it was dispatched with and reports findings read-only.

How does it handle prompt injection in fetched web content?▼

Fetched text is treated as untrusted data, never instructions. If a result contains directives such as ignore previous instructions, they are ignored and the answer names the source and discloses the injection attempt.